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46 REV. JONATHAN EDWARDS.
refreshments are sold during the summer months to
the crowds of visitors who come to enjoy this lovely
spot. The prospect remindedus of that from Moncreiff
Hill in Perthshire; but that from Mount Holyoke
is in some points the superior of the two. We crossed
the river in a boat, the construction of which presented
some features that were new to me. It was impelled
by two horses, one on each side of the boat. Each horse
pulled at a bar fixed by chains to two immoveable
posts, rising from the hull of the boat; and by the
pressure of his feet, caused a wooden circular frame,
which served him for a road, to revolve in the direction
opposite to that in which he walked. He must
have appeared to himself to be pulling and walking
in his usual manner ashore, but instead of the ground
serving as a fulcrum to enable him to drag forward
his load, the fixed bar at which he pulled presented
a resisting body that enabled him to push the road
backward from under his feet. The pathway, in its
revolutions, turned a paddle-wheel at each side. We
afterwards saw numbers of these boats in the United
States. On the deck the horses occupy only the space
on which they stand, and all the machinery is below.
" The Rev. Jonathan Edwards continued in Northampton
more than twenty-three years, till he was
dismissed in 1750. The causes which led to his dismissal
were his endeavours to enforce what he considered
to be his duty in regard to the discipline of the
church, and likewise the opposition he made to the sentiment
supported by his colleague and grandfather, the
Rev. Mr Stoddart, that unconverted persons ought to
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/86/?q=%221838%3F%22&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.